"You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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“We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.”
“My family gave me the best in education.”
“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”
“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.”
“The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.”
“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.”

Source : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.
“Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.”
“I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.”

Source : Amy Robach (2015). “Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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